Study suggests embryos could be susceptible to coronavirus as early as second week of pregnancy
05 August 2020Genes that are thought to play a role in how the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects our cells have been found to be active in embryos as...
Green energy and better crops: tinted solar panels could boost farm incomes
04 August 2020Researchers have demonstrated the use of tinted, semi-transparent solar panels to generate electricity and produce nutritionally-superior crops simultaneously, bringing the prospect of higher incomes for...
Nine Cambridge researchers among this year’s Royal Society medal and award winners
04 August 2020A leading pioneer in the field of protein engineering, Sir Alan Fersht FMedSci FRS, has been named as the 2020 winner of the world’s oldest...
Four-stranded DNA structures found to play role in breast cancer
03 August 2020Four-stranded DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – have been shown to play a role in certain types of breast cancer for the first time,...
Digital resurrection: bringing one of Italy's most important lost churches back to life
03 August 2020Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence’s oldest and most important churches, San Pier...
Genetic tool can identify Asian women at higher risk of breast cancer
31 July 2020A genetic study in Asian women, led by Malaysian scientists in collaboration with Singapore and the University of Cambridge, has revealed that a genetic tool developed to...
‘Pill on a string’ test to transform oesophageal cancer diagnosis
30 July 2020A ‘pill on a string’ test can identify ten times more people with Barrett’s oesophagus than the usual GP route, after results from a...
Launch of 'Beyond the pandemic': where should we go from here?
30 July 2020The COVID-19 crisis is forcing us all to change direction, to rethink what we do and how we do it. In a new series, launched...
Beyond the pandemic: reduce the risk of animal viruses jumping to humans
30 July 2020Cambridge zoologists Bill Sutherland and Silviu Petrovan warn that we must dramatically change the way we interact with animals to reduce the risk of this...
‘Quantum negativity’ can power ultra-precise measurements
29 July 2020Scientists have found that a physical property called ‘quantum negativity’ can be used to take more precise measurements of everything from molecular distances to gravitational...